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Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
Project | Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of ...
Abortion, lawfare, legal mobilization, right to life, right to health, religion, transnational activist networks, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador
A Comparative Study of the Refugee Convention Article 1 F (exclusion) and Articles C-E (cessation)
Project | Oct 2004 - Oct 2005
The right to seek asylum, and the conflicting interests that may arise between the rights of the asylum seeker on the one hand and the recipient ...
refugee, refugee status, human rights violations, terrorism, international law, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada
The quest for justice and reconciliation: The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda and the Ethiopian high court
Journal Article | Jan 1999
The quest for justice and reconciliation: The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda and the Et
How Relevant is Robin Hood? The Human Right to Health in a Global Perspective
Event | 21 Nov 2008
The seminar will address the role of the international community in securing the right to health through an exploration of the content of the right itself, the corresponding obligations, and in particular which obligations are assumed by richer states - acting bi- or multilaterally.
Plural Legalities
Event | 1 Jun 2007
There is a growing political and public awareness of the contemporary existence and importance of legal plurality. What value does the recognition of legal plurality have for the poor and socially marginalised?
Political Terror: How do we measure and deal with human insecurity?
Event | 16 Mar 2015
International human rights law promises to protect “everyone.” Yet, there is no country in the world where citizens enjoy the human rights protection promised to them by law. Professor Mark Gibney will speak to the importance of measuring political violence and how it has been carried out.
Tønnessen Liv
Research Director
Political scientist researching women, politics and Islam in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Gender politics, women's movements, legal reform, sexual and reproductive rights, gender based violence, family law, Sudan
Schultz Jessica Leigh
Researcher and Senior Adviser (U4)
Lawyer specialising in international human rights and refugee law.
migration
Law, development and "the poor" in India
Event | 17 Oct 2005
Radha D'Souza, previously a lawyer and counsel at the High Court of Mumbai and currently teaching at the School of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand gives a seminar at CMI focusing on public interest litigation, class action suits, constitutional and administrative law.
Gender, sex and religious freedom in the context of secular law
Event | 19 Jun 2015
Why and how do discussions about religious freedom and secularism coalesce around questions of gender and sexuality? What is the relationship between the regulation of gender and sexuality and the regulation of religion in modern secular societies?
No magic bullets for reconciliation
News | 17 Aug 2015
When societies go from military dictatorship to democracy or from internal armed conflict to peace, one of the toughest choices facing the government in the new order is how to deal with past violence. Great hopes have been pinned on transitional justice mechanisms, but the anticipated positive effects of transitional justice mechanisms on the process of restoring peace or (re)constructing democracy may be too high.
Building ethnic citizenship?
Event | 13 May 2008
Indigenous responses to multicultural state reform in Guatemala and Mexico. Professor Rachel Sieder analyzes indigenous peoples' efforts to articulate alternative visions of government, law and justice.
Mexico, Guatemala
Land Rights and Inclusive Development in India
Event | 17 Oct 2013
Why has landlessness come to plague the weakest and poorest amongst the tribal population, when laws were enacted to prevent this from happening?
India
Changing conditions for fighting economic crime
Event | 30 Oct 2013
What constitutes an efficient criminal justice system? This international workshop with leading experts explores criteria for crime-preventive impacts through the criminal justice system.
Bergen Exchanges on Law and Social Transformation
Event | 17 Aug 2015
Welcome to a week of deliberation on effects of law and legal mobilization in Bergen, Norway 17-21 August 2015!
License to kill: Honour killings in Pakistan
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004
Pakistan has one of the highest incidences of honour killings in the world. This is a major human rights issue that has received little attention ...
Traditional culture, Honour killings, Pakistan, Asia: Pakistan
En skattepolitisk konfrontasjon med skatteparadiser. Det norske Finansdepartementets narrativ om nasjonalpolitisk avmakt i møte med et globalt fenomen 1970-2012
Master's Thesis | Sep 2012
The issue of so-called “tax havens” is controversial and has been on the international political agenda with interest peaking at ...
International anti-money laundering laws. Improving external accountability of political leaders
U4 Brief | Aug 2010
The full potential of anti-money laundering regimes (AML) as an anti-corruption tool is yet to be realised. At the international level, AML ...
international drivers of corruption, uncac
Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan
Book Chapter | Jan 2011
In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. ...
Afghanistan